Teachers' Learning Community
The Teachers' Learning Community (TLC) is a support group for all Education majors (undergraduate and graduate) looking to interact with their fellow students and to gain valuable experience in community schools.
Upcoming TLC Presentations for Fall 2010
Gary Cornelius: Viking Research: Applying the Latest Research to Your Science Curriculum
Date, time, and location to be announced.
Marc Gilbertson: "Clickers in the 21st Century Social Studies Classroom: A Valuable Assessment Tool?"
Date, time, and location to be announced.
Marc has been a Middle Level Social Studies teacher at Lamoille Union High School since he graduated from Colby College in 1991. For the past 14 years he has been working on Team Extreme, which uses an interdisciplinary approach to teach 7th and 8th grade. He has been a presenter at the New England League of Middle Schools Annual Conference, the NELMS special seminar on interdisciplinary education, and worked as a consultant for the Amherst, Massachusetts school district. Marc was the keynote speaker at the Lamoille North Supervisory Union district-wide in-service and most recently presented work on classroom response systems to the Lamoille Union and Green Mountain Technical and Career Center staff.
Recent TLC Presentations
Wednesday, April 21
Eileen McKusick: The 4th State of Matter in the Educational Context: The Physics and Metaphysics of Plasma
Dewey 1867 Room - 4 -5:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 10
2nd Annual High School Greening Summit
Across Campus - 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
TLC co-sponsors
For more information: Visit the High School Greening Summit web site.
Thursday, April 22
A Teacher's Storytelling Fire Circle
As part of Earth Day, 6:45 p.m. at the Lower Pond
Teaching is a vocation, an art, a science, an ongoing exploration of discovery, intuition, compassion, devotion, reflection and creativity. Current and future teachers — come tell a teaching story! Inspire, share, just listen, talk, learn, enjoy the fire! Â
Shaman Blessing: Burton
Drumming Circle: Micah
Convocation: Teacher-storyteller Morna Flaum
February, 2010
An Original Place-Based K-6 Curriculum Exploring Local Wetlands and Your Community
March 2010
Zak Stein: Mind, Brain & Education, Part II
Morna Flaum: The True Nature of Schema, Part II
September 2009
Russ Weis presented a talk called "The Eco-Sustainable Campus" as his Masters in Education Capstone Experience in Stearns Performance Space on Sept. 8, 2009. If you are interested in learning more about how to incorporate environmental themes and projects into your teaching at the high school and college levels, please contact Russ at 635-1376 or Russell.Weis@jsc.edu
March 2009
Harvard Ph.D. candidate Zachary Stein joined us on March 25, 2009. His provocative presentation, entitled "Mind, Brain, and Education: Insights from an Emerging Field" was very well received. Click here to view a poster for the event (pdf). Click here to view an abstract of the topics he covered, as well as his biographical information.
For more information
E-mail: JSC.TLC@jsc.edu
Phone: 802-635-1376 or stop by TLC office: McClelland 115
Contact: Faculty Advisors: Darlene Witte at 635-1322 & Russ Weis at 635-1376
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